Michigan · Nonprofit
Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc
Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,668,629 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($635,960). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc does
Mission
We build environments of curiosity and creativity with our neighbors to cultivate inclusion and justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Cook Arts Center offers a wide range of classes and programs in the arts within our four studios: the visual arts studio, the dance studio, our music room, and ceramics studio. Our After School Arts program, Summer Arts & Learning, and Girls Rock Grand Rapids Camp are some of our core programs that provided access to arts classes and activities to over 380 community members this year.
$316,500 spent48% of program spendingThe Cook Library Center is an anchor institution in the Grandville Avenue neighborhood, providing a safe space of belonging for many youth and adults throughout the year. General library services such as internet and computer access, printing, and book borrowing are available year-round. Our Cook Library After School program for neighborhood youth provides homework help and tutoring, educational activities, games, and many mentoring opportunities. Over the course of the year, the library had over 2,577 drop-in visits, and 150 students served.
$288,391 spent44% of program spendingWe offer additional programming for high school students with our Teen Leaders program, which provides mentorship and leadership opportunities for teens. Youth have the chance to help lead projects, receive private lessons in the arts, and get support with their acadamic needs. We also partner with local schools to offer classes and workshops during the school day, which includes hosting classrooms at our facilities or sometimes having staff visit the schools to read, lead workshops, or run activities.
$56,604 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $661,495.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.0M to $3.5M (+17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 12% · 2021 31% · 2022 7% · 2023 16% · 2024 14% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Steff Rosalez
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $22k → $347k.
4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 71% · 2019 35% · 2020 24% · 2021 30% · 2022 55% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
72% of Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $720k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $208k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$208k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc?
- Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,668,629 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($635,960). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,668,629 in grants to Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc?
- GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $635,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing